ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CHRISTIAN DUTIES recommended in Scripture for our Practical Observance.

Ask, and ye shall receive.

ABIDE in me and I in you.

ABSTAIN from all appearance of evil.

BELIEVE in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.

BE NOT a hearer of the word, but a doer thereof.

BE NOT many masters.

CEASE to do evil. Cry after wisdom.

COME unto me all ye that labour, and are heavy laden: and I will

give you rest.

CAST thy bread upon the waters, &c.

DESPISE not prophesyings.

DESPISE not the chastening of the Lord.

DO JUSTLY, love mercy, and walk humbly with thy God.

ENVY NOT the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

ESTEEM others better than yourselves.

ENDURE hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

FLEE also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the name of the Lord out of a pure heart.

FIGHT the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life.

GET WISDOM, get understanding.

GO TO THE ANT, thou sluggard, consider her ways and be wise.
GIVE HONOUR to whom honour is due.

HEAR, ye children, the instruction of a father.

HEARKEN diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

IN every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God. Incline your ear and come unto me; hear and your soul shall live. JUDGE not, that ye be not judged.

KEEP thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools.

LOVE THE LORD THY GOD, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

MY SON, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; harden not your hearts, &c.

OWE no man any thing, but love one another.
OPPRESS not the poor because he is poor.

PREPARE to meet thy God.

PRAY without ceasing-that is, be in a praying frame of mind. QUENCH not the Spirit.

RENDER to Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's, and unto God the things that are God's.

SEEK ye the LORD while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near.

TRUST in the LORD at all times; ye people pour out your hearts before Him, God is a refuge for us.

WATCH and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.

WATCH, for ye know not what hour your LORD doth come.
WHAT I say unto one, I say unto all, Watch, &c.

LIST OF EXTRAORDINARY MEN recorded in Scripture.

Adam; Cain; Abel; Enoch; Methuselah; Lamech; Noah; Shem; Ham; Japheth; Terah; Abraham; Lot; Eleazar; Isaac; Jacob; Reuben; Simeon; Levi; Judah; Zebulon; Issachar; Dan; Gad; Asher; Naphtali; Joseph, and Benjamin (see their character, Gen. xlix.); Pharaoh; Moses; Aaron; Jethro; Caleb; Joshua; Korah; Dathan; Abiram; Barak; Sisera. (The Judges.)-Othniel; Ehud; Barak; Gideon; Abimelech ; Tola; Jair; Jephthah; Ibzan; Elon; Abdon; Samson, and Samuel. For a list of the Kings of Israel and Judah, and the Prophets, see the Chronological Table. Job; Jonah; Mordecai; Haman; Ahasuerus; Artaxerxes; Cyrus; Nebuchadnezzar; Belshazzar; Shadrach; Meshech; Abednego; Darius; Zerubbabel; Jeshua; Ezra, and Nehemiah, &c., &c.

Matthew; Mark; Luke; John; Peter; Judas; Paul; Pilate; Felix; Festus, &c.

LIST OF EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN recorded in

Scripture.

Eve; Sarah; Rebekah; Deborah, her nurse; Leah; Rachel; Zipporah; Miriam; Rahab; Deborah, the Prophetess; Jael; Delilah; Naomi; Ruth; Hannah; Michael; Abigail, and Bathsheba, wives of David; Queen Athaliah; Jezebel; The Widow-woman of Zarephath; The Shunammite; Vashti, and Esther; The three Women who stood by the Cross of Christ, &c.

LIST OF EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS recorded in Scripture.

The Creation of the World; the Fall of our First Parents; the Murder of Abel; the Tower of Babel; the Confounding of Language; the Flood; the Call of Abraham; the Offering of his Son Isaac; the Preservation of Moses when born; the Burning Bush; the Ten Plagues of Egypt; Israel leaving Egypt in one Night; their Marching through the Red Sea; their Food and Drink in the Wilderness; the Giving of the Law at Sinai; their Making and Worshipping the Golden Calf; the Deaths of Aaron and Moses; Israel Passing through Jordan; Taking of Jericho and Ai; the Sun and Moon standing still; the mighty deeds of Samson, &c.

Following these remarkable events, the scholar may be examined on the "Chronological Table of the Kings and Prophets of Judah and Israel," by asking their character, or what was remarkable in the reign of each of them-Job's Adversity and Prosperity; Jonah cast into the Sea, and preserved; THE CAPTIVITY; Nebuchadnezzar, and Daniel's Dreams; the Three Children cast into the Burning Furnace; Daniel cast into the Den of Lions.

THE RESTORATION.-Building the Second Temple.

THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST.-His Flight into Egypt; His first appearance in the Temple; His Baptism; His Transfiguration; His mode of Teaching; His Miracles; His Sufferings and Death; His glorious Resurrection and Ascension.

EXERCISES.

The Exercises on the Appendix may be conducted something after this manner :

Give the names applied to Christ which begin with the first three letters of the Alphabet. Mention three Christian duties, beginning with the letter B, &c. Who was Adam? For what was he remarkable? &c., &c.

SACRED RIVERS AND MOUNTAINS.

RIVERS.-Pison- Gihon-Hiddekel—Euphrates— Abana and Pharpar-Jordan, and the Nile, Kishon, &c. MOUNTAINS.--Ararat-Moriah-Sinai-Hor-Pisgah-Horeb

Carmel-Lebanon-Zion-Tabor-Olivet-Calvary.

EXERCISES.

For what was each and all of these rivers and mountains remarkable? Where are they situated?

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